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Old Oct 11, 2014, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by tabenda View Post
Well, I don't believe it was a "test." If you focus just on his comment that he wanted to see my reaction, I think that is something a lot of us do. I like to see a friend's reaction to a picture I took on vacation, or maybe how a kid reacts to their first taste of a lemon. I think that he thought I wasn't familiar with the cowgirl espresso stands and simply wanted to see my reaction when I saw what it was like, and I don't think he was looking to base a judgment of me dependent upon my reaction. I don't want to read more into what he meant just as I don't want him to read more into my reply, than the joke that it was. Now, if it was something that had actually played out (or he had expressed a negative moral bias in the conversation), and he formed a negative judgment from my reaction, whatever it may have been, then that's a different story.
Fair enough, but then the asymmetry of the situation remains the main issue. If he was joking, he should not have gotten offended when you joked.
Thanks for this!
Bill3, tabenda